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Please note that Talk:Main Page is for dicsussion about the main page only. Thanks! Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 03:06, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm an admin, so I'm able to do that. Kwsn (Ni!) 18:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I can't take on new adoptees right now (see User_talk:Chaser#Adoption_requests for more). Check the list for another adopter or drop by my talk page with the occasional question. Cheers!-- chaser - t 11:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi!
I'm Steve Baker - I'm a part of the Adopt-A-User program and I see you are looking for some help. I'm an experienced editor (10,000+ edits, 2 featured articles) and I've had several successful adoptions in the past. If you'd like to accept my offer, let me know on my talk page.
SteveBaker ( talk) 03:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
OK! Welcome to the Adopt-A-User program. Basically, I'm here to help and advise - answer questions and to play 'big brother' and beat up anyone who tries to steal your lunch money! I'll just generally keep an eye on your User contributions to see if there is anything obviously problematic going on. If you have any questions, or just need to chat, I'm here for you. In the unlikely event that you need help because of some grief with another user or something and maybe you want advice that they can't read or which doesn't leave a 'paper trail' for posterity, feel free to email me at steve@sjbaker.org - or if you need a really fast reply during the week, you can get me at work on sbaker@midway.com
I'll update your User page to reflect the fact that you no longer need an adopter. Drop me a note on my talk page when you're back from your WP:WikiBreak and we can chat.
About me: I'm British (so ignore any advice on the correct spelling of the word 'colour'!) and I'm a computer game designer/programmer with Midway studios in Austin, Texas. In my spare time, I edit Wikipedia (well, duh!) and I restore classic cars (the photo at the top of the Mini article is my current project and the photo at the top of the MINI (BMW) article is my regular car).
I've been looking at the edits you've done already - you seem to have a pretty eclectic taste in articles! Most people I've worked with on the adoption program get enthused about a particular topic and edit only a narrow range of subjects...this is going to be much more fun! This editing style suggests that you may perhaps turn out to be a WikiGnome (that's a complement - honest!) - which is someone who edits widely, fixing up small problems throughout Wikipedia rather than focussing on one special area. I'm definitely a WikiGnome - although I've written a few articles more or less from scratch (or at least greatly expanded some stubs) and pushed them all the way to the holy grail of 'featured article' and a coveted place on the front page for one day.
If you do have some special areas of interest that you'd like to contribute to, let me know and I can probably suggest a WikiProject to join which would put you in touch with other editors with similar interests.
There are plenty of other ways for someone with an eclectic taste in articles to make a difference. One is in adding 'classifications' to articles that lack them. The Wikipedia classification system produces that list of categories at the bottom of some pages - and a little tag placed somewhere in the article generates them and adds the article into a classification index. Another way is to join in one of the several projects that rate articles for quality. This is rather interesting because it gets you reading in subject areas you wouldn't otherwise think of - and I find it's rather stimulating to learn things outside my normal areas of interest. I'm in the habit of clicking 'Random Article' a few times each day when I have a bored moment and challenging myself to find a way to improve each of the articles I hit. Sometimes it's really easy (a spelling mistake or something) - on other occasions it can be tough.
I noticed you asked User:Kwen about article deletion - maybe I can amplify on what he said: Actual article removal is only possible for administrators - and you need to have a few thousand edits behind you before you'd stand a chance to become one (actually, it's a rather overrated 'honor' that brings with it a great deal more grief than joy...but some people enjoy the politics of it). For us 'mere mortals', we add the article name and some kind of a justification to the Articles for Deletion list - the deletion is debated by anyone who cares and then, depending on the outcome of the debate, an admin will either delete it or not. Sometimes the outcome is to move the article somewhere else - or to merge it with another article...it depends on the nature of the problem.
Anyway - good luck with your application to Dartmouth - it's a fine college. What subjects are you planning to take?
SteveBaker ( talk) 13:38, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Beyond basic editing: The buttons at the top of the edit window are shortcute for the actual 'markup' language that Wiki uses. It's probably better to ignore them and enter the special characters directly, This web page (which I wrote for my own, personal Wiki) is a basic guide to Wiki markup that you can zip through and understand in 15 minutes flat. Most people find it's handy to have a page where they can mess around and try things out without wrecking the encyclopedia - so I've created a sub-page of your User page for you User:/Sandbox where you can play around to your hearts content without having to worry about screwing up something important! SteveBaker ( talk) 23:57, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Page protection and Reverting Vandalism. Normal users can't protect pages - you need to be an admin to do that. But do you know about how to revert vandalism? Click on the 'history' tab - next to the entry for the vandalism, there will be an 'undo' button - click on that and it'll show you the 'before' and 'after' changes - click 'Save page' and you're done. To edit a LOT of vandalism, go to the 'history' tab then click on the date next to the most recent "good" version. That'll bring up that version of the page. Do a quick visual check that this is the right version - then click 'edit this page' and add an edit summary of "rv: Vandalism" or whatever - then hit "Save page" and you're done. SteveBaker ( talk) 03:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
The Three Revert Rule and Vandalism
OK - I looked at the editing history for Motherwell F.C. and there are some serious problems with what happened. (It's OK - you're new here - and that's why I'm here to advise!)
Firstly, you are saying that the removal of that short section of 'retired numbers' was vandalism - that is not necessarily the case (in fact, I'd be surprised if that were true). Perhaps the user '66.32.22.54' believes that this information is incorrect - rightly or wrongly, that's not vandalism. Vandals are usually much more obvious than that - expect lame jokes and obscenities, etc. There is (of course!) a Wikipedia guideline on what to assume is vandalism ( WP:VANDAL).
We are required by Wikipedia to Assume Good Faith - which means that we must assume that 66.32.22.54 was acting in good faith (he/she may be wrong - but not acting to disrupt the encyclopedia). So if you believe that information that was deleted was actually correct, then there was no problem in reverting it the first time...after all, it might have been an editing mistake on behalf of 66.32.22.54. But when the information was again deleted, we must assume that it wasn't a mistake. At this point, the correct course of action would be to leave a message on the 'discussion' page for the article (and perhaps a note on 66.32.22.54's talk page too) asking why this person keeps on deleting that section. If you don't get a reply in a day or so - and assuming you KNOW that information is correct - then go ahead and put the information back in again.
In a serious content dispute (ie when you KNOW this information is correct - and 66.32.22.54 insists that it's not), you have to be prepared to back up your claim with some verifiable information - from a book or a magazine or a reliable website.
However, the back-and-forth delete/restore/delete/restore cycle that both you and 66.32.22.54 went through breaks a really important Wikipedia rule called The Three Revert Rule (generally known as '3RR') - which you should read about. It says that NO MATTER WHAT you do not revert a particular change more than 3 times in any 24 hour period. Both you and 66.32.22.54 broke the rule. This rule is an especially serious one to pay attention to because you can get your account blocked if someone complains about it to an admin. (Of course, you weren't to know - but now you do!).
SteveBaker ( talk) 03:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
The edits to Tom and Jerry in Fists of Furry have a similar problem. Again, both you an the anonymous editor broke the 3RR - and again, you couldn't really describe the other person's edit as vandalism per-se. (Although I certainly agree with you that it's an overly agressive attitude to take to a perfectly reasonably written stub - and I'd have removed it too). But again, after a couple of rounds of reversion, you need to get with the other person and discuss it. That template alleges Patent nonsense - but that's really not true. What the article says is basically OK - it's not gibberish. But the tactic that you are employing is not good - simply reverting over and over until the other person gets sick of it is a bad way to resolve disputes. SteveBaker ( talk) 04:15, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
JzG has a custom signature. To change it, go to "my preferences" at the top and drop down to the "signature" box. Check the "raw signature" button and enter in the raw signature. So if you want something really simple, write [[User:|<whatever you want>]]
. If you really want to change your username, please see
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hbdragon88 (
talk) 08:30, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the oh-so kind message on my fake message page. As much as I would like to keep it, I feel that it is not too attractive on my page and I will have to delete it. Redmarkviolinist Drop me a line 14:43, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
User:NASCAR Fan24/SecretPageTemplate NF24( welcome, 2008!) 01:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your support in my successful RFA. AliveFreeHappy ( talk) 07:32, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey !
Congratulations on finding the page that does not exist. Here is your reward; you've earned it.
User:Selfworm/HiddenLinkAward
Congrats!
selfworm
Talk) 03:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Please don't add protection templates to articles that are not protected. If you want to request protection for an article, go to WP:RFPP. --- RockMFR 04:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding an image on your userpage, namely Image:Halosig4.jpg, did you create it yourself? If you didn't, or it is a derivative of something from Halo for instance, I am afraid that is grounds to deletion. Thanks, Chris.B ( talk) 11:32, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Sadly, your picture is gonna get deleted for sure. It would be better to remove it yourself than let it go through a long, painful process of review. Fan art like this is vulnerable to the original owners' copyright. You can't draw pictures of Mickey Mouse without Disney getting upset with you...that's very well established. Even though Bungie invited Fan Art, it was on their terms - you had to send it to their web site and they specifically said that you couldn't violate copyright in creating it (which technically means that they won't accept anything with Halo characters and vehicles in it...although I bet they do). They could publish those images themselves - but legally, you couldn't do anything else with them. Clearly they aren't going to sue anyone over stuff like this - fan art helps their business (well, within limits) - but rules are rules and they (or someone who might buy their rights to Halo in the future) might start getting nasty about it. Wikipedia has to be especially careful about this kind of thing - we are highly visible (one of the top 10 sites on the web) and on a budget of less than a million $ a year, we can't afford a lot of lawyers! It might have been possible to argue to keep the image on the grounds of 'fair use' or something - but an image used in a User: page doesn't fall into that category. So, no matter what, the image is 99% certain to be deleted. That being the case, it would be better if you did it yourself. It's a beautiful picture though. SteveBaker ( talk) 15:52, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
If you want to make a signature, feel free to copy the code for mine. It's located at {{ user:east718/s}}. Cheers, east.718 at 11:42, December 30, 2007
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Halosig4.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Chris.B ( talk) 12:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC) -- Chris.B ( talk) 12:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Well, it was a copy of 2007 New England Patriots season. So unless you were intending on fixing it fully within a short period of time, it would have been inaccurate. That other option would have been to just blank the page essentially, which would have also been pointless. So it can stay deleted for now, and once this current season is over all information coming out of Foxboro will be about the 2008 season. Pats1 T/ C 13:38, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey. If you have anything you want to add to the Perfect season article in regards to the 2008 Patriots' season, feel free to do so. - Taospark ( talk) 09:53, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Would you be able to enable an email address in your preferences? It'd be great for users that need to contact you about sensitive matters. Cheers, Daniel 08:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello. You can tag it with {{ Db-author}}. All the best and Happy New Year! Chris.B ( talk) 14:07, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Please be aware of WP:3RR in regards to Smash Lab. The matter is under discussion on the article's talk page. Amazingracer ( talk) 21:13, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I see you also left a vandalism complaint on User talk:71.196.142.14 - and again, I've had to revert that. What 71.196.142.14 did does not amount to vandalism. Accusing someone of vandalism is a MAJOR accusation. You mustn't use it lightly or without being quite sure of your facts. Please read WP:VANDAL - which explains precisely what is and what isn't vandalism - and how to handle these more dubious cases. It says:
Real vandalism is almost always utterly obvious - obscenities - insults - total nonsense (often quite funny nonsense!). The subtle vandals are much less frequent and they are much harder to detect - it's almost unheard of for a true vandal to delete the same section of one article over and over again.
No, not right now. I'm just thinking of graduating in 3 years and going off to med school afterwards. Essentially, it's the same thing as a BS/MD program (I think). Why do you ask? Nishkid64 ( talk) 21:36, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- Djsasso ( talk) 17:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
If you are getting your edits attributed to your IP address instead of your regular account name then it may be that you have your browser set up to reject cookies or to make them expire after a very short time or something. It's also possible that you aren't checking the box marked "Remember my login on this computer" when you log in - or that you are frequently telling the browser to erase private data (which would include cookies). Whatever the cause, looking at the edit history corresponding to your IP address, it looks like this is happening a lot. SteveBaker ( talk) 22:44, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
I've blocked this account for the time being because access to the account is apparently compromised. You may request reinstatement at any time (and change your password) on this page. Acroterion (talk) 20:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi - thanks for your participation in my request for adminship. When I nominated myself, I really wasn't sure how it was going to go, so seeing your support pop up so soon after I opened it helped me breathe a little easier - in the end, it passed 52/0/0, and I'm now in possession of a shiny new mop. If I can ever help you with anything, please don't hesitate to contact me. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 08:01, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
My request for adminship was successful at 64/1/2! Many thanks for your participation and I will endeavor to meet your expectations. Cheers, Sephiroth BCR ( Converse) 09:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey !
Congratulations on finding the page that does not exist. Here is your reward; you've earned it.
User:Selfworm/HiddenLinkAward
Congrats!
selfworm
Talk) 15:22, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your support for my RfA, which passed (74/2/0) this morning. Your super-enthusiastic support certainly gave me a smile. Happy‑ melon 09:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Well, I'm unsure on how to respond to such an insult. ;) Nousernamesleft copper, not wood 02:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry it took me a while to get back to you -- I composed a long response and then promptly forgot about delivering it.
Why don't you e-mail me and we can talk over that -- this discussion isn't really pertinent to Wikipedia, so we should probably keep it off the talk pages. Send me a blitz at joebot (at) dartmouth.edu. Dylan ( talk) 22:52, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Puja Gupta, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that
administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{
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to the page and state your intention on the article's
talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.
Resolute 03:27, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, the templates themselves don't actually have any effect. You have to request that a sysop protect the page by going to WP:RFPP. There are more details linked there.-- Chaser - T 00:04, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Welcome!
Hello, Tnayin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
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Chaser -
T 00:07, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Please note that Talk:Main Page is for dicsussion about the main page only. Thanks! Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 03:06, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm an admin, so I'm able to do that. Kwsn (Ni!) 18:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I can't take on new adoptees right now (see User_talk:Chaser#Adoption_requests for more). Check the list for another adopter or drop by my talk page with the occasional question. Cheers!-- chaser - t 11:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi!
I'm Steve Baker - I'm a part of the Adopt-A-User program and I see you are looking for some help. I'm an experienced editor (10,000+ edits, 2 featured articles) and I've had several successful adoptions in the past. If you'd like to accept my offer, let me know on my talk page.
SteveBaker ( talk) 03:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
OK! Welcome to the Adopt-A-User program. Basically, I'm here to help and advise - answer questions and to play 'big brother' and beat up anyone who tries to steal your lunch money! I'll just generally keep an eye on your User contributions to see if there is anything obviously problematic going on. If you have any questions, or just need to chat, I'm here for you. In the unlikely event that you need help because of some grief with another user or something and maybe you want advice that they can't read or which doesn't leave a 'paper trail' for posterity, feel free to email me at steve@sjbaker.org - or if you need a really fast reply during the week, you can get me at work on sbaker@midway.com
I'll update your User page to reflect the fact that you no longer need an adopter. Drop me a note on my talk page when you're back from your WP:WikiBreak and we can chat.
About me: I'm British (so ignore any advice on the correct spelling of the word 'colour'!) and I'm a computer game designer/programmer with Midway studios in Austin, Texas. In my spare time, I edit Wikipedia (well, duh!) and I restore classic cars (the photo at the top of the Mini article is my current project and the photo at the top of the MINI (BMW) article is my regular car).
I've been looking at the edits you've done already - you seem to have a pretty eclectic taste in articles! Most people I've worked with on the adoption program get enthused about a particular topic and edit only a narrow range of subjects...this is going to be much more fun! This editing style suggests that you may perhaps turn out to be a WikiGnome (that's a complement - honest!) - which is someone who edits widely, fixing up small problems throughout Wikipedia rather than focussing on one special area. I'm definitely a WikiGnome - although I've written a few articles more or less from scratch (or at least greatly expanded some stubs) and pushed them all the way to the holy grail of 'featured article' and a coveted place on the front page for one day.
If you do have some special areas of interest that you'd like to contribute to, let me know and I can probably suggest a WikiProject to join which would put you in touch with other editors with similar interests.
There are plenty of other ways for someone with an eclectic taste in articles to make a difference. One is in adding 'classifications' to articles that lack them. The Wikipedia classification system produces that list of categories at the bottom of some pages - and a little tag placed somewhere in the article generates them and adds the article into a classification index. Another way is to join in one of the several projects that rate articles for quality. This is rather interesting because it gets you reading in subject areas you wouldn't otherwise think of - and I find it's rather stimulating to learn things outside my normal areas of interest. I'm in the habit of clicking 'Random Article' a few times each day when I have a bored moment and challenging myself to find a way to improve each of the articles I hit. Sometimes it's really easy (a spelling mistake or something) - on other occasions it can be tough.
I noticed you asked User:Kwen about article deletion - maybe I can amplify on what he said: Actual article removal is only possible for administrators - and you need to have a few thousand edits behind you before you'd stand a chance to become one (actually, it's a rather overrated 'honor' that brings with it a great deal more grief than joy...but some people enjoy the politics of it). For us 'mere mortals', we add the article name and some kind of a justification to the Articles for Deletion list - the deletion is debated by anyone who cares and then, depending on the outcome of the debate, an admin will either delete it or not. Sometimes the outcome is to move the article somewhere else - or to merge it with another article...it depends on the nature of the problem.
Anyway - good luck with your application to Dartmouth - it's a fine college. What subjects are you planning to take?
SteveBaker ( talk) 13:38, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Beyond basic editing: The buttons at the top of the edit window are shortcute for the actual 'markup' language that Wiki uses. It's probably better to ignore them and enter the special characters directly, This web page (which I wrote for my own, personal Wiki) is a basic guide to Wiki markup that you can zip through and understand in 15 minutes flat. Most people find it's handy to have a page where they can mess around and try things out without wrecking the encyclopedia - so I've created a sub-page of your User page for you User:/Sandbox where you can play around to your hearts content without having to worry about screwing up something important! SteveBaker ( talk) 23:57, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Page protection and Reverting Vandalism. Normal users can't protect pages - you need to be an admin to do that. But do you know about how to revert vandalism? Click on the 'history' tab - next to the entry for the vandalism, there will be an 'undo' button - click on that and it'll show you the 'before' and 'after' changes - click 'Save page' and you're done. To edit a LOT of vandalism, go to the 'history' tab then click on the date next to the most recent "good" version. That'll bring up that version of the page. Do a quick visual check that this is the right version - then click 'edit this page' and add an edit summary of "rv: Vandalism" or whatever - then hit "Save page" and you're done. SteveBaker ( talk) 03:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
The Three Revert Rule and Vandalism
OK - I looked at the editing history for Motherwell F.C. and there are some serious problems with what happened. (It's OK - you're new here - and that's why I'm here to advise!)
Firstly, you are saying that the removal of that short section of 'retired numbers' was vandalism - that is not necessarily the case (in fact, I'd be surprised if that were true). Perhaps the user '66.32.22.54' believes that this information is incorrect - rightly or wrongly, that's not vandalism. Vandals are usually much more obvious than that - expect lame jokes and obscenities, etc. There is (of course!) a Wikipedia guideline on what to assume is vandalism ( WP:VANDAL).
We are required by Wikipedia to Assume Good Faith - which means that we must assume that 66.32.22.54 was acting in good faith (he/she may be wrong - but not acting to disrupt the encyclopedia). So if you believe that information that was deleted was actually correct, then there was no problem in reverting it the first time...after all, it might have been an editing mistake on behalf of 66.32.22.54. But when the information was again deleted, we must assume that it wasn't a mistake. At this point, the correct course of action would be to leave a message on the 'discussion' page for the article (and perhaps a note on 66.32.22.54's talk page too) asking why this person keeps on deleting that section. If you don't get a reply in a day or so - and assuming you KNOW that information is correct - then go ahead and put the information back in again.
In a serious content dispute (ie when you KNOW this information is correct - and 66.32.22.54 insists that it's not), you have to be prepared to back up your claim with some verifiable information - from a book or a magazine or a reliable website.
However, the back-and-forth delete/restore/delete/restore cycle that both you and 66.32.22.54 went through breaks a really important Wikipedia rule called The Three Revert Rule (generally known as '3RR') - which you should read about. It says that NO MATTER WHAT you do not revert a particular change more than 3 times in any 24 hour period. Both you and 66.32.22.54 broke the rule. This rule is an especially serious one to pay attention to because you can get your account blocked if someone complains about it to an admin. (Of course, you weren't to know - but now you do!).
SteveBaker ( talk) 03:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
The edits to Tom and Jerry in Fists of Furry have a similar problem. Again, both you an the anonymous editor broke the 3RR - and again, you couldn't really describe the other person's edit as vandalism per-se. (Although I certainly agree with you that it's an overly agressive attitude to take to a perfectly reasonably written stub - and I'd have removed it too). But again, after a couple of rounds of reversion, you need to get with the other person and discuss it. That template alleges Patent nonsense - but that's really not true. What the article says is basically OK - it's not gibberish. But the tactic that you are employing is not good - simply reverting over and over until the other person gets sick of it is a bad way to resolve disputes. SteveBaker ( talk) 04:15, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
JzG has a custom signature. To change it, go to "my preferences" at the top and drop down to the "signature" box. Check the "raw signature" button and enter in the raw signature. So if you want something really simple, write [[User:|<whatever you want>]]
. If you really want to change your username, please see
WP:CHU or
WP:CHU/U to usurp an existing one.
hbdragon88 (
talk) 08:30, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the oh-so kind message on my fake message page. As much as I would like to keep it, I feel that it is not too attractive on my page and I will have to delete it. Redmarkviolinist Drop me a line 14:43, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
User:NASCAR Fan24/SecretPageTemplate NF24( welcome, 2008!) 01:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your support in my successful RFA. AliveFreeHappy ( talk) 07:32, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey !
Congratulations on finding the page that does not exist. Here is your reward; you've earned it.
User:Selfworm/HiddenLinkAward
Congrats!
selfworm
Talk) 03:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Please don't add protection templates to articles that are not protected. If you want to request protection for an article, go to WP:RFPP. --- RockMFR 04:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding an image on your userpage, namely Image:Halosig4.jpg, did you create it yourself? If you didn't, or it is a derivative of something from Halo for instance, I am afraid that is grounds to deletion. Thanks, Chris.B ( talk) 11:32, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Sadly, your picture is gonna get deleted for sure. It would be better to remove it yourself than let it go through a long, painful process of review. Fan art like this is vulnerable to the original owners' copyright. You can't draw pictures of Mickey Mouse without Disney getting upset with you...that's very well established. Even though Bungie invited Fan Art, it was on their terms - you had to send it to their web site and they specifically said that you couldn't violate copyright in creating it (which technically means that they won't accept anything with Halo characters and vehicles in it...although I bet they do). They could publish those images themselves - but legally, you couldn't do anything else with them. Clearly they aren't going to sue anyone over stuff like this - fan art helps their business (well, within limits) - but rules are rules and they (or someone who might buy their rights to Halo in the future) might start getting nasty about it. Wikipedia has to be especially careful about this kind of thing - we are highly visible (one of the top 10 sites on the web) and on a budget of less than a million $ a year, we can't afford a lot of lawyers! It might have been possible to argue to keep the image on the grounds of 'fair use' or something - but an image used in a User: page doesn't fall into that category. So, no matter what, the image is 99% certain to be deleted. That being the case, it would be better if you did it yourself. It's a beautiful picture though. SteveBaker ( talk) 15:52, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
If you want to make a signature, feel free to copy the code for mine. It's located at {{ user:east718/s}}. Cheers, east.718 at 11:42, December 30, 2007
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Halosig4.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Chris.B ( talk) 12:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC) -- Chris.B ( talk) 12:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Well, it was a copy of 2007 New England Patriots season. So unless you were intending on fixing it fully within a short period of time, it would have been inaccurate. That other option would have been to just blank the page essentially, which would have also been pointless. So it can stay deleted for now, and once this current season is over all information coming out of Foxboro will be about the 2008 season. Pats1 T/ C 13:38, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey. If you have anything you want to add to the Perfect season article in regards to the 2008 Patriots' season, feel free to do so. - Taospark ( talk) 09:53, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Would you be able to enable an email address in your preferences? It'd be great for users that need to contact you about sensitive matters. Cheers, Daniel 08:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello. You can tag it with {{ Db-author}}. All the best and Happy New Year! Chris.B ( talk) 14:07, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Please be aware of WP:3RR in regards to Smash Lab. The matter is under discussion on the article's talk page. Amazingracer ( talk) 21:13, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I see you also left a vandalism complaint on User talk:71.196.142.14 - and again, I've had to revert that. What 71.196.142.14 did does not amount to vandalism. Accusing someone of vandalism is a MAJOR accusation. You mustn't use it lightly or without being quite sure of your facts. Please read WP:VANDAL - which explains precisely what is and what isn't vandalism - and how to handle these more dubious cases. It says:
Real vandalism is almost always utterly obvious - obscenities - insults - total nonsense (often quite funny nonsense!). The subtle vandals are much less frequent and they are much harder to detect - it's almost unheard of for a true vandal to delete the same section of one article over and over again.
No, not right now. I'm just thinking of graduating in 3 years and going off to med school afterwards. Essentially, it's the same thing as a BS/MD program (I think). Why do you ask? Nishkid64 ( talk) 21:36, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
- Djsasso ( talk) 17:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
If you are getting your edits attributed to your IP address instead of your regular account name then it may be that you have your browser set up to reject cookies or to make them expire after a very short time or something. It's also possible that you aren't checking the box marked "Remember my login on this computer" when you log in - or that you are frequently telling the browser to erase private data (which would include cookies). Whatever the cause, looking at the edit history corresponding to your IP address, it looks like this is happening a lot. SteveBaker ( talk) 22:44, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
I've blocked this account for the time being because access to the account is apparently compromised. You may request reinstatement at any time (and change your password) on this page. Acroterion (talk) 20:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi - thanks for your participation in my request for adminship. When I nominated myself, I really wasn't sure how it was going to go, so seeing your support pop up so soon after I opened it helped me breathe a little easier - in the end, it passed 52/0/0, and I'm now in possession of a shiny new mop. If I can ever help you with anything, please don't hesitate to contact me. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 08:01, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
My request for adminship was successful at 64/1/2! Many thanks for your participation and I will endeavor to meet your expectations. Cheers, Sephiroth BCR ( Converse) 09:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey !
Congratulations on finding the page that does not exist. Here is your reward; you've earned it.
User:Selfworm/HiddenLinkAward
Congrats!
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Thanks for your support for my RfA, which passed (74/2/0) this morning. Your super-enthusiastic support certainly gave me a smile. Happy‑ melon 09:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Well, I'm unsure on how to respond to such an insult. ;) Nousernamesleft copper, not wood 02:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry it took me a while to get back to you -- I composed a long response and then promptly forgot about delivering it.
Why don't you e-mail me and we can talk over that -- this discussion isn't really pertinent to Wikipedia, so we should probably keep it off the talk pages. Send me a blitz at joebot (at) dartmouth.edu. Dylan ( talk) 22:52, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
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